Before getting into the discussion of the quality of my reading this year, let’s run some numbers: BOOKKEEPING: The Reading Status Report Number of books read and reviewed in 2009: 47. This is an improvement over my 2007 reading, and a nice return to form from the dismal 35 I read in 2008. Given the pace at which I usually read, which isn’t aided by big chunks of reading time (other than my “Starbucks hour” […]
Disclosures: I purchased this book for my personal library. *This review includes purchasing links that go through my Amazon Associates account, which pays me a small percentage for purchases based on referrals through those links. Betsy and the Great World/Betsy’s Wedding Maud Hart Lovelace Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2009), Paperback (reissue) (ISBN 0061795135 / 9780061795138) Fiction/youth fiction, 688 pages Book description: This brand-new edition of Maud Hart Lovelace’s beloved works brings together the final two […]
Disclosures: I purchased these books for my personal library. *This review includes purchasing links that go through my Amazon Associates account, which pays me a small percentage for purchases based on referrals through those links. Heaven to Betsy/Betsy in Spite of Herself Betsy Was a Junior/Betsy and Joe both by Maud Hart Lovelace Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2009), Paperback (ISBN 0061794694 / 9780061794698) (ISBN 0061794724 / 9780061794728) Youth fiction, 704 pages/640 pages (each book is […]
The year-end wrap-ups you start seeing everywhere in December are being joined by recaps of the decade this time around. There’s probably no reason one can’t take time to look back over the last 10 years every year, but when you’re talking about the block of years running from ‘0 to ‘9 (or ‘1 to ‘0, depending on how you prefer to count), that usually means “THE decade.” Hence, as we reach December of 2009, […]
(Well, I wasn’t sure if I’d have a post up today, but what do you know? Here’s one after all!) I hadn’t expected to start thinking about my end-of-the-year book choices quite yet, but Weekly Geeks is a little bit ahead of me: This is a guest post by Jackie of Literary Escapism who has graciously offered to organize the Book Blogger Top 10 again this year. Welcome to the Weekly Geeks Book Bloggers Top […]
I just looked at the calendar, and there are not quite eight weeks left in 2009 (!). Soon I’ll be putting together my Books of the Year picks and my Year in Review posts. It may be a little more challenging this year. I’ve read more books than the 35 I managed last year (yay!), and I’m pretty sure I’ll knock out a few more before the end of December. But I’ve also read quite […]
Disclosures: I purchased these books for my personal library. *The purchasing link at the end of the review goes through my Amazon Affiliates account. The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press (2008), Hardcover (ISBN 0439023483 / 9780439023481) Fiction (fantasy/sci-fi/YA), 384 pages Catching Fire Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press (2009), Hardcover (ISBN 0439023491 / 9780439023498) Fiction (fantasy/sci-fi/YA), 384 pages Opening lines: “When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, […]
It’s a reading challenge that was born on Twitter, in a comment Eva made after finishing a book last week: someone should start a “women’s studies” reading challenge. As tends to happen, book bloggers jumped in and out of the discussion, and within a few hours, a name, a hashtag, and a challenge blog were launched: Women Unbound! Full disclosure, as mentioned in the “Community Credit” item on the blog’s sidebar – I was part […]
I’m starting to understand how book bloggers get pulled into these reading challenges, although I’ve held out against them pretty well. I’ve only signed up for two so far, and they’ve both been targeted at trying to thin the TBR herd. But here comes another that will not only add to the stacks – it’s going to add books that I’ve already read! Granted, I last read them over 25 years ago, but it will […]
I know…you’re thinking, “Hasn’t she spent a whole week now talking about where she’s been?” But it’s not like that, I promise; this is something that my friend Cherie tagged me with on Facebook. You’re supposed to mark all the states you’ve been in with an X, and you can mark the ones where you’ve lived with an O. Airports don’t count! States driven through, or states where you stopped at the visitors’ center or […]
…or, The (Half)Year in Books I “borrowed” this idea from Nymeth‘s Sunday Salon post last week, but as it happens, it was also June 29th’s Musing Mondays question: Now that we’ve come to the middle of the year, what do you think of your 2009 reading so far? Read anything interesting that you’d like to share? Any outstanding favorites? Considering my pathetic total of 35 books read and reviewed in 2008, the fact that I’m […]
This week we are going to rewind to May 2008 and revisit one of Dewey‘s original Weekly Geeks themes: Political and Social Issues. Here is how to play: 1. Choose a political or social issue that matters to you. If you were a Weekly Geek last May and already did this theme, pick a different theme than the one you did at that time. 2. Educate readers about your topic by telling us a little […]
